Just so everyone knows...

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This is the kind of bull I'll have to fight...and artificial bull bred for combat:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/30/bu...bMEpyNjD8YDiXg

Scientists Produce First Cloned Fighting Bull
Carlos Luján for the International Herald Tribune
Got, the first cloned fighting bull seen here on the Melgar de Yuso farm where he was born. Got was created using nuclear transfer, wherein DNA from the “father” bull was inserted into cow’s eggs that had been stripped of their nuclei. The process created embryos which were then implanted into surrogate cows.
By JAMES KANTER
Published: July 29, 2010
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LinkedinDiggMixxMySpaceYahoo! BuzzPermalink. MELGAR DE YUSO, SPAIN — The team that produced the first cloned fighting bull in Spain calls its dark brown calf the only living representative of a ferocious lineage that goes back 300 years.

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Carlos Lujan for the International Herald Tribune
Vicente Torrent Guinot, the director of the Fundación Valenicana de Investigación Veterinaria, a nonprofit group that led the cloning project.
Got, who was born from a placid black and white Frisian surrogate on May 18, already gambols across the farmyard and uses his budding horns to tussle with children. He lives in a hay manger in this tiny northern village near the Camino de Santiago, a celebrated route for Christian pilgrims.

The project began three years ago, when a team cultured 41 identical embryos from a small sample of skin from the neck of a highly valuable stud bull, Vasito, before he died last year of old age.

Of 21 cows inseminated, three became pregnant.

Two days after Got’s birth, another calf was stillborn after its blood became incompatible with that of its mother.

Researchers at the University of Murcia, in southern Spain, are investigating whether the onset of that condition was due to the cloning procedure. Those results are expected in October.

Researchers at the University of Newcastle are verifying that Got is truly a clone. Those results are expected in early August.

The birth of a third calf, Toruño, is expected in the third week of August.

Vicente Torrent Guinot, the director of the Fundación Valenciana de Investigación Veterinaria, a nonprofit group that led the project, broadly followed an approach to cloning pioneered by the creation of Dolly, a cloned sheep, in 1996, the first mammal cloned from an adult cell. But he said he had honed elements of the process to make it more efficient.

Dolly was put down at the age of 6 after developing arthritis and a lung disease, fueling suspicions that cloned animals are prone to illnesses.

Dolly’s creators have maintained that the onset of those conditions was not connected to her cloning.

Animal protection groups still question the ethics of using risky procedures to produce animals that could be used for blood sports, much less food.

“The underlying motive is clearly profit, with no consideration for the pain and the deaths of many animals as a result of this Frankenstein technique,” said Sonja Van Tichelen, the director of Eurogroup for Animals, a federation of animal welfare organizations.

Mr. Torrent said his goal was to preserve the noblest qualities in fighting bulls.

The group spent €30,000, or about $40,000, on the project. Karl Storz, a German producer of medical equipment, donated an endoscope for the insemination process worth €15,000.

The Guardiola family owns Got and the 20 remaining embryos, which are being kept frozen. A family representative could not be reached for comment, but Mr. Torrent said he did not expect them to pass on any of their future earnings from selling bulls sired by Got to his organization.

Mr. Torrent also said he would not ask for any royalties from researchers who reproduced the procedure. Instead, Mr. Torrent said he was content to be contributing to preventing the permanent loss of species of “high genetic value.”

I'm going to have to be extra fast to hit this clone bull in the dick.

[Infiniti]

It seems to me as though you completely misunderstand the reason for the cloning. It's for the preservation of a species thought to have a high genetic value, this cloned bull being called 'the only living representative of a ferocious lineage that goes back 300 years.'

Now, I personally see that as something worth preserving. Considering what I believe to be your views on nature and such, I would have to say, why would you not wish to keep one of 'God's creations' on this earth? When the goal is to PRESERVE this species rather than just doing it for entertainment, I really would have to say that such comments on this story are the words of, well, a colossal prick, I'm sorry to say.